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Read chapter three, Corporate Ethics Best Practices, from Corporate Management, Governance, and Ethics Best Practices (Vallabhaneni), 2008. You can find this eBook at ebscohost.com.

These five questions may earn up to 50 extra credit points.

Answer the following questions. You will have to consult other sources to fully answer these questions.

1. 1. What is the relationship between ethics and the law?

2. 2. Why do the claims and interests of stakeholders sometimes conflict?

3. 3. Why should managers use ethical criteria to guide their decision making?

4. 4. What are the main determinants of business ethics?

5. 5. You are planning to leave your job to go to work for a competitor, but have not informed your employer. You are invited to a meeting to discuss a new product line. Your company has not required you to sign a non-compete or non-disclosure agreement. What do you do?

This question may earn you up to twenty points; however. Your score will be based on the logic of your response and the strength of your argument.

Recently an employee at a public restaurant in New York City refused to serve uniformed police officers as a protest to current events.

1. 1. How do you believe management should have responded to this situation?

2. 2. Should employers be able to restrict the free speech of employees in the workplace?

3. 3. Should employers be able to punish employees for comments made in social media?